Which is your favourite Amiga and why?

[Amithony]

I thought I'd throw this one out there to get a snapshot for my Amiga time capsule.

[Popstar]

The desktop A1200 because of the look / feel of it.
If I should choose another one it would be either the A3000 or the A1000 - again because these have the best look / feel.

If it was just for the convenience and power, I would go for the A4000.

[Amithony]

Yes, there's much to be said about the AGA machines. I like the look of the 3000 though. I think the next one that comes out will be the greatest. (still hoping that some powerful hardware guy finds his inner Amiga and takes it on.)

[arnljot]

I've owned a 500, a 1200 and a 4000. I've craved for a CD32 (later, when I grew up).

I've also used an a1000, an a2000. Never seen an a3000 though.

When I parted with my 500 (with 120MB scsi disk, and 3MB ram) for a stock a1200 with 80MB disk. I felt cheated by Commodore.

I loved my A4000PPC when I upgraded to that back when P5 released it.

But now my heart belongs to the A1200. Which it never really had in the first place. That was then reserved for the A500 and A4000.

Now I love it because of the simplicity, compatability and AGA.

I "can't" use my A500, and the A4000 is too bulky to have near by the TV for those Sensible Soccer, Pinball Fantasies and Lemmings bouts...

Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)

[Amithony]

arnljot wrote:

Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)

Hmmm. Thats an interesting project. How far have you got with it?

[tokyoracer]

The A1200, it gave affordable and powerful computing to the masses in such style. A brilliant design.

[motorollin]

For a powerful machine: The A4000. I know some people hate the case, but I love it. I always coveted a Zorro-capable Amiga (I know technically they can all do it with hacks, but still...) and when I finally got my A4000 it was a dream come true!

For a portable machine: The A1200. It can have most of what the A4000 has in a nice portable case.

For pure fun: I have recently acquired a CD32, and it's awesome.


If I had to choose one though, it would be the A4000.

--
moto

[Amithony]

tokyoracer wrote:
The A1200, it gave affordable and powerful computing to the masses in such style. A brilliant design.

I recently bought an A1200 that I will need to go and pick up. Looking forward to it more than most of my other purchases. It really is a sleek machine isnt it?

[AeroMan]

The A1200 ! It is an amazing machine. Compact, AGA, WB3, PCMCIA...

[McVenco]

I have owned every Amiga model apart from the CDTV and the A4000T (I don't count my towerised A4000 desktop as a true tower), and the A3000 is my absolute favourite. If you look at the standard, out-of-the-factory specs and looks, it's just the best one that Commodore ever made. SCSI and flickerfixer onboard, and it looks awesome.

Apart from that, the A4000(T) is my favourite when it comes to expandability, and the A500 for a good oldschool gaming experience. The A1200 is a bit better than the A500, but I just don't like the looks of it. They took the wedge too far with that design (maybe I'm just gonna put my A1200 mainboard in an A500 case - best of both worlds! :-))

[bloodline]

The A500... it is the quintisential Amiga... it defined home computing for about 4 years. It was powerful, cheap and fun. Everyone had one.

I like the A1200, as it was the best designed of the Amigas... but it was released 2 or 3 years too late... the after about a year it already seemed dated. Still I trudged on with mine (upgrading the damn thing like crazy) until the year 2000... When the call of the 600Mhz Athlon became too great.

The Original Commodore A4000T was beautiful.

But the 1.3 A500 is my favourite. That is one machine that will stay in my heart forever. I still have one in the cupboard.

[Darrin]

I've had an A2000, A1500, CD32, A1200 (inc towers) and A3000.

Out of all of them I use my A2000 the most.  It's an ECS model with a 68030 and a Cybervision 64/3D graphics card.  I just love the room inside it which makes swapping cards a breeze and the fact it has just enough bays to mount everything I need internally (HD, floppies and CD ROM).

For some reason, my A1200s in the towers just don't "feel" like Amigas in the same way the A2000 does.  Perhaps it's the nasty old PC keyboard that does it.

[abbub]

My A2000, because it's mine.  

[Retro_71]

I love my A2000 the most, it's easy to upgrade, it's a work horse and pretty much bullet proof.
next is the A1200 although i'm half-way thru moding it and still have lots of hair pulling to go.

[arnljot]

I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. Under tutorials in the forum here, you'll find both a psu project and cdrom projects. I'm just doing both in the machines (two of them).

Amithony wrote:

arnljot wrote:

Now if I only could be done with the 1200 hacks I've got planned (mini psu and cdrom)

Hmmm. Thats an interesting project. How far have you got with it?